How to Fabricate Alien Fur for a Giant Creature
Released on 08/15/2014
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Once the customer decides on the colors,
we make a blend,
and then we cut the fiber.
After cutting, we stick it onto the picker machine,
we take it over here, and it goes through the card.
We bring the fiber over here,
stick it on this table,
and then it flicks it onto the knit backing.
[Kim] And that's how we make fabulous fur!
Hey, it's Kim and Fred.
[Alan] Hey Fred.
Hey there.
[Kim] All right, did you guys get the samples?
[Alan] We have 'em here in front of us.
Thank you so much for doing that.
Tell me about which one's we're looking at though.
The ones that we like the best were
CF20571XL
and 20570XL.
[Alan] Yeah.
Those are our favorites as well.
Are those custom blends?
[Kim] Yes.
[Fred] Of course.
[Alan] Of course they are.
That's why they look so good.
[Fred] If you turn it upside-down,
you'll get a lot more loft out of it without the weight.
[Alan] Fuzzier.
Like he said, it's got more lift.
We like the darker one.
[Kim] All right!
[Fred] Excellent.
[Kim] Yay!
So we all agree that it's L that we're gonna go for.
Yep. Yep.
[Kim] Well, we will start busy cutting away.
Okay, fantastic.
Thank you so much.
This is great.
It's great material.
It's very forgiving 'cause the fur is so long,
so we can machine-stitch the seams.
We don't have to pick 'em out because the fur is so long.
And it stretches a lot,
so it makes our life easier.
The pant leg, which is being cut out,
is gonna come all the way down here,
and it's gonna be seen to the top of the feet,
and it's gonna glue just like that.
Ted told me where he wanted the pattern to be.
He cut out the hair.
Tracey and I glued the entire edge,
and then I basically just blended off the edge.
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NFT is great, especially if you have mass quantities
of areas to do, like any creature that
involves a large suit,
or anything that's this size,
if you were to hand-tie it,
it would take a large crew at least a year or two.
I might put a little toe hair in, you know,
like how I have.
No, why don't you show us.
You wanna see my toe hairs?
Not...
not really.
You're lookin' at em.
It's gonna be like this, basically.
Just a little jooj.
Just a jooj.
A little bit of product, you know?
One of the really cool things about
working directly with NFT is that Kim and Fred
were able to give us the insider tips and tricks
on how to make fur look great.
[Kim] Being here at Comic-Con has been so great for us.
We usually don't get to participate in the end result,
and it's just been fabulous.
All your hard work,
and getting us involved from the beginning
was a great thing for us.
[Alan] Check out the Wired channel, thescene.com,
for the entire giant creature series.
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